ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,644, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Virtual holiday control" was invented by Amit Kumar Raha (Barrackpore, India) and Amitava Chakraborty (Kolkata, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for controlling virtual holiday experiences. In one embodiment, the techniques involve receiving a virtual itinerary, wherein the virtual itinerary includes a virtual holiday destination and a user preference, retrieving media of the virtual holiday destination based on the virtual itinerary, wherein the media is retrieved from a social media network or a public media da...